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Martha Wainwright’s new CD ‘Come Home to Mama’

Posted August 30th, 2012 by Anna

MARTHA’S NEW WEBSITEMartha has a new CD. It’s got lots of great new songs beautifully produced by Yuka C. Honda. Here’s a video of Martha doing Kate’s Proserpina. This is the last song Kate wrote. It was around mid-October 2009. She sang it in the Royal Albert Hall Christmas show on Dec 9. This was to be her last public performance.

Think it’s time for Anna to open up another thread to get into a likely lively discussion of Martha’s ongoing output of French songs for the soundtrack of Trauma (a Québequois version of ER).
I love her cover of “Ayoye”, just made available in the last few days. Taking on a Gerry Boulet classic, in Quebec, in French, wow, that’s ballsy! The comments are going to come thick and fast and furious, pro and con.
I would like to be able to tell Martha, GO MARTHA, your mantra is “Le nez dans le vent, mais les pieds bien à terre”!!! “En-waye Martha”

As a video it interests me beyond the music. did you ever see the auditions for the part of Rebecca that various actresses put out. one of the auditions by a woman who didn’t get the part invented the whole portrayal for the actress who eventually performed. it’s pretty hard to see Rebecca without seeing ann baxter now. no one ever replaces anyone else but to suggest… The more variance in renditions the better I think. As a song Proserpina strikes me as a fragment of a larger work. The Mcgarrigle family history of being family foremost may cloud the interpretation of the words of this song. My kid’s crying gotta go.